ROLE:
Introduction and procedure: done by Osama Qaiser ( L1F20BSCS0393)
and Ahmed Siddiqui ( L1F19BSCS0257 ).
Questions: done by Muhammad Awais ( L1F19BSCS0163 ).
Conclusion: done by Hafiz M.Hamza ( L1F19BSCS0087 )
GRAPH OF QUESTIONS : DONE BY MUNEEB (L1F18BSCS0008 )
PSYCHOLOGY PROJECT
Name Registration No.
Osama Qaiser L1f20bscs0393
Ahmad Siddiqui L1f19bscs0257
Muhammad Awais L1f19bscs0163
Hafiz M.Hamza L1f19bscs0087
Muneeb ijaz L1f18bscs0008
EFFECT OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON YOUTH:
INTRODUCTION:
The idea that social media are defined simply by their ability to bring
people together has been seen as too broad, as this would suggest that
fundamentally different technologies like the telegraph and telephone are also
social media. The terminology is unclear, with some early researchers referring to
social media as social networks or social networking services in the mid-2000s.
Social media are interactive technologies that allow the creation
or sharing/exchange of information, ideas, career interests, and other forms of
expression via virtual communities and networks. While challenges to the
definition of social media arise due to the broad variety of stand-alone and built-in
social-media services currently available, there are some common features:
1. Social media are Internet based applications.
2. User-generated content such as text posts or comments, digital
photos or videos, and data generated through all online interactions—is the
lifeblood of social media.
3. Users create service-specific profiles for the website or app that are designed
and maintained by the social-media organization.
4. Social media helps the development of online social networks by
connecting a user's profile with those of other individuals or groups.
How to get access to social media?
Users usually access social media services via web-based
apps on desktops and laptops, or download services that offer social media
functionality to their mobile devices (e.g., smartphones and tablets). As users
engage with these electronic services, they create highly interactive platforms
through which individuals, communities, and organizations can share, co-create,
discuss, participate, and modify user-generated content or self-curated content
posted online.
Which platforms are included in social media?
Some of the most popular social media websites, with over 100 million registered
users, include Facebook (and its associated Facebook
Messenger), TikTok, WeChat, Instagram, QZone, Weibo, Twitter, Tumblr, Baid
u Tieba, and LinkedIn. Depending on interpretation, other popular platforms that
are sometimes referred to as social media services
include: YouTube, QQ, Quora, Telegram, WhatsApp, LINE, Snapchat, Pintere
st, Viber, Reedit, Discord, VK, Microsoft Teams, and many more.
USES:
Actually, there are a lot of uses of social media but here are some uses which a
single person do in single day:
Social media are used to document memories.
Social media are used learn about and explore things;
Social media are used advertise oneself;
Social media are used form friendships along with the growth of ideas from
the creation of blogs, podcasts, videos, and gaming sites.
And many more.
USAGE OF SOCIAL MEDIA:
According to a survey conducted by Pew Research in
2018 Facebook and YouTube dominated the social media landscape, as notable
majorities of U.S. adults used each of these sites. At the same time, younger
Americans (especially those ages 18 to 24) stood out for embracing a variety of
platforms and using them frequently. Some 78% of 18-24-year-old adults
used Snapchat, with a sizable majority of these users (71%) visiting the platform
multiple times per day. Similarly, 71% of Americans in this age group
used Instagram and close to half (45%) were Twitter users. Nonetheless, Facebook
remained the primary platform for most American adults: roughly two-thirds of
U.S. adults (68%) reported that they were Facebook users, and roughly three-
quarters of those users accessed Facebook on a daily basis. With the exception of
those 65 and older, a majority of Americans across a wide range of demographic
groups used Facebook. However, after Facebook's rapid growth in the United
States over the years, the number of new U.S. Facebook accounts created has
plateaued, with not much observable growth in the 2016-18 period.
A different nationally representative survey by Common Sense in 2019 surveyed
young Americans ages 8–16 and found that about 31% of children ages 8–12 ever
use social media such as Snapchat, Instagram, or Facebook. In that same survey,
When American teens ages 16–18 were asked when they started using social
media, 28% said they started to use it before they were 13-years-old. However, the
median age of starting to use social media was 14-years-old.
SOCIAL MEDIA AS A HEALTH BEHAVIOUR CHANGE:
Social media can also function as a supportive system for adolescents' health,
because by using social media, adolescents are able to mobilize around health
issues that they themselves deem relevant.
For example, in a clinical study among adolescent patients undergoing treatment
for obesity, the participants' expressed that through social media, they could find
personalized weight-loss content as well as social support among other adolescents
with obesity.
Whilst, social media can provide such information there are a considerable amount
of uninformed and incorrect sources which promote unhealthy and dangerous
methods of weight loss. As stated by the national eating disorder association there
is a high correlation between weight loss content and disorderly eating among
women who have been influenced by this negative content. Therefore, there is a
need for people to evaluate and identify reliable health information, competencies
commonly known as health literacy. This has led to efforts by governments and
public health organizations to use social media to interact with users, to limited
success.
NEGATIVE IMPACTS:
Social media use sometimes involves negative interactions between users.
Angry or emotional conversations can lead to real-world interactions, which can
get users into dangerous situations. Some users have experienced threats of
violence online and have feared these threats manifesting themselves offline.
Related issues include cyberbullying, online harassment, and 'trolling'. According
to cyberbullying statistics from the I-Safe Foundation, over half of adolescents and
teens have been bullied online, and about the same number have engaged in
cyberbullying. Both the bully and the victim are negatively affected, and the
intensity, duration, and frequency of bullying are the three aspects that increase the
negative effects on both of them.
SLEEP DISTURBANCE:
According to a study released in 2017 by researchers from
the University of Pittsburgh, the link between sleep disturbance and the use of
social media was clear. It concluded that blue light had a part to play—and how
often they logged on, rather than time spent on social media sites, was a higher
predictor of disturbed sleep, suggesting "an obsessive 'checking'". The strong
relationship of social media uses and sleep disturbance has significant clinical
ramifications for young adult’s health and well-being. In a recent study, we have
learned that people in the highest quartile for social media use per week report the
most sleep disturbance. The median number of minutes of social media use per day
is 61 minutes. Lastly, we have learned that females are more inclined to experience
high levels of sleep disturbance than males. Many teenagers suffer from sleep
deprivation as they spend long hours at night on their phones, and this, in turn,
could affect grades as they will be tired and unfocused in school. In a study from
2011, it was found that time spent on Facebook has a strong negative relationship
with overall GPA, but it was unclear if this was related to sleep disturbances. Since
blue light has increasingly become an issue smartphone developers have added a
night mode feature that does not cause as much strain to the eyes as a blue light
would.
EMOTIONAL IMPACTS:
One studied emotional effect of social media is 'Facebook depression', which is a
type of depression that affects adolescents who spend too much of their free time
engaging with social media sites. This may lead to problems such as reclusiveness
which can negatively damage one's health by creating feelings of loneliness and
low self-esteem among young people.
Social media can sometimes have a supportive effect on individuals who use
it. Twitter has been used more by the medical community. While Twitter can
facilitate academic discussion among health professionals and students, it can also
provide a supportive community for these individuals by fostering a sense of
community and allowing individuals to support each other through tweets, likes,
and comments.
Another emotional effect is the "fear of missing out" (FOMO), which is defined as
the "pervasive apprehension that others might be having rewarding experiences
from which one is absent. FOMO has been classified by some as a form of
social anxiety. It is associated with checking updates on friends' activities on social
media.
PROCEDURE:
We were asked by our psychology teacher to conduct a survey of how social media
has effected youth in different ways. We 5 group member conducted this survey
that includes 12 questions and people were given with two to four choices for each
question like yes, no, positive, negative etc. The question included in this survey
was for people of age group 18 to 23. There were 50 students, that included 25
girls 25 boys to whom we approach so that we can have an overview of their
mindset and thinking. There were 3 different topic related questions that how
social media has affected their relationship, studies and physical health.
Department to whom we had approach were CS, BBA, SE, Mass Com, etc. of our
university. Then we made a graph for answers of those questions. After completing
all the assigned task, we submitted our project to our psychology teacher.
CONCLUSION:
Social platforms also encourage the spread of wrong information and news majorly
aimed at tainting other peoples’ names or other groups of interest such as political
or religious groups. This in turn leads to fights and enmity between the concerned
parties and this can lead to divisions amongst tribes or people from different
ethnicities and tribes.
It can also lead one to join groups of cults and illuminati people, which in turn can
also lead to frequent killings of people in society especially loved ones as a
sacrifice to these cults.
In conclusion, social networking has been proved to have both positive and
negative effects on our youths. Individuals should make a conclusion whether to go
on using the sites or stop or even moderate on their usage. Parents should guide
and advise their children on current matters like the usage of social media and
warn them of its negative impacts to them when misused or overused. The
education curriculum also should be revised so that it can include social media
studies in its disciplines to alert students that they need to be careful in their social
media usage.
Results:
1. Stalking, identity theft, personal attacks, and misuse of information are some
of the threats faced by social media youth.
2. Most of the time, the youth themselves are to blame as they share content that
should not be in the public eye and the content can cause problems in people's
personal and professional lives.
3. Multiple studies have found a strong link between heavy social media and an
increased risk for depression, anxiety, loneliness, self-harm.
4. Social media may promote negative experiences such as: Inadequacy about
your life or appearance.
5. Social Media Makes It Easier to Make Friends.
6. Social Media Fosters Empathy.
7. Social Media Allows for Speedy Communication.
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